The US is deepening its alliance with Australia. Some 2,500 US marines are going to be deployed to Darwin, at Australia's northernmost tip, and more US aircraft are going to be rotating through Australian bases.
American troops already operate in South Korea, Japan, Guam and the Philippines. Now they'll have another foothold in Asia, spreading their reach, and positioning US forces a little further away from Chinese missiles.
The message is that America is ensuring it is strategically poised to project power over the vital trade routes that pass through the South China Sea, and it wants to reassure its partners in Asia it is cementing that position.
China has been an economic and military threat for decades, what has changed the posture recently?
The only thing that comes to mind for me is the cyber threat which China poses ( and it is huge ). But apart from that have they been test firing missiles or built new radar sites etc?
China have arced up about it and quite frankly they can shut the fuck up, i would love to remind them of the stay out of our internal affairs TM that thye love so much, but its not well known but the have a site in WA priamrily to help them with matters of space but funnily enough it lets them spy on just aboot the whole Indian ocean, so goose meet gander.
Soapy wrote:China has been an economic and military threat for decades, what has changed the posture recently?
Lots of troops returning from the sandbox that need something to do!
Now we have demonstrable evidence that if you try to lead from behind, eventually the guys up front will stop looking back for instructions.
Government-coerced expression is a feature of dictatorships that has no place in a free country
Signaling a determination to counter a rising China, President Barack Obama vowed Thursday to expand U.S. influence in the Asia-Pacific region and "project power and deter threats to peace" in that part of the world even as he reduces defense spending and winds down two wars.
Now we have demonstrable evidence that if you try to lead from behind, eventually the guys up front will stop looking back for instructions.
Government-coerced expression is a feature of dictatorships that has no place in a free country
